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SEEK THE OLD PATHWAYS
Rev. rank De Witt Talmage Speaks
of the Right Ones to Follow
(Entered according to Act of the Bare
!lament of Otfuada, to the veer One
Thousand Nine Hundred and Three,
by Wail, Bally,. of Toronto, at the
Department of Agrloulture, Ottawa.)
A. despatch from (Chicago says:--
13ov, I+'xunk De Witt Talmage lu'each-
ed from the following text: Jeremiah
vi„ 16, "Ask for the old paths."
Most simple is the text's figure.
Its simplicity gives, It a homely beau-
ty, It has in it .the aroma of the
woods. .It Is one of those simple
Similes of country life that bring
back to the weary city dweller, whose
feet haw° been long accustomed to
the hard paving stones of the city
sidewalks, the memory of the foot-
paths over turf covered ]tills and the
narrow lanes between the liailks be-
jeweled with sweet wins .flowers that
he used'. 'to walk in his childhood
days. Tho old paths—we can never
forget than. It will do us good if
wo think of theist thi's morning and
see if there aye any, moral leSSOnS
we can learn from theist, Sometimes
the commonest incidents of everyday
life have a voice for those who will
hear, •
Jeremiah, among the greatest of
the .prophets, lamenting • that tis
coltntrymen had deserted: their God
and 'disobeyed his laws, pleads with
them to avert the impending punish-
ment by returning to him, and he
employs this simple figure to por-
tray their condition. He describes
them as .travelers lost upon the
mountains of sin, hunting for a path
which will lead them out of their
moral 'difficulties. He represents God
as telling them to "ask for the old
paths; which is the good way, and
walk therein, and yo shall find rest
for your souls. But they said, "We
will not walk therein." Jeremiah
points the right path leading to the
throne of God by using the homely
simile of the ordinary country paths
or rough roadways in common use
at the time, over which the eastern
caravans havo traveled and the cows
have costo home for the evening milk-
ing and over which have passed
tired men and women when, with
daily tasks well done, they have
sought the home firesides for physi-
cal refreshment and for blessed
steep.
THE PATHWAY TO TELE CROSS.
Like Jeremiah; I would to -day car-
ry your thoughts back to the re-
miniscences of the country and from
the sweet, fresh flowers of the vil-
lage hedgerows pluck blossoms which
tvi11 remind you of old time associa-
tions and resolves, The greatest of
horticulturists is not .he garaener
who fashions his beds in the "many
colors" of a Joseph's coat or a
grandmother's crazy quilt. It is ho
who makes his floral designs simple
—very simple. One bed loops as
though it were a bit of Alphine lake
flung aniong the crowded regiments
of flowers. It is planted entirely
with violets. It looks as simple
and yet as beautiful as the June
heavens colored in blue. Another
bed looks like a great collection of
leaping flames. It is planted only in
roses. It is very simple. It, is as
simple in colors as a cardinal's robe.
It is as simple in colors as the set-
ting sun. Another bed has the
jaundiced look of a Malay's skin. It
is only planted in golden glows. An-
other will be an azalea bed, another
a dahlia, another planted in white
lilies, another in geraniums. The
horticulturistic genius thrives best
in the simplicity of colors. From
this sermonic bed I would pluck
only .the sweet for-get-nle-nota of ten-
der memories. Like Jeremiah the
prophet I would try to lead you
over some of the old paths which
your feet have trodden in the past,
and in leading I would lead you to
the foot of the cross.
CLEAR AWAY IRE RUBBISH.
But, conte, let' us take our axes
to -day and clear away some of that
rubbish. Let us explore the old
path which once led up to the old
liornestead. • When the first settlers
entered the Michigan woods they
used to "blaze" the trees, That
means that with their axes they
would chop a notch out of this tree
and that and the other tree as they
went along. Thus, if they could find
the right place to settle in one di-
rection, they would retrace their
steps by these notches and start out
in the woods from another direction.
Well, these old paths which once led
up to the homes of our childhood
may not have been used for a quar-
ter of a century, but they can be
easily followed. Our parents "blaz-
ed" them all the way along:
As I follow these "blazings" I find
they were morally straight paths.
They were as straight as a hie.
Your father may not have had much
money. In all probability you, as
a farmer's boy, remember him for
the most part clothed in ovoralls
and a woolen shirt. • ]Jut under that
rough exterior therm beat a heart es
true as honesty itself. Looking back
over the long years, you remember
him traveling that "straight path."
You cannot , think of one act your
father ever slid which was dishonor-
able. People sometimes said "he
was close" in reference to money. He
had to be close in order to furnish
bread enough for his babies' mouths,
'You cannot remember your father
once losing his temper and uttering
maledictions unless perhaps it was
c1t the day when he found that a
neighbor, w110 was left ars executor.
by law, had robbed a pons' widow of
her all. A1r, that old father 01
yours may stave worn shabby
clothes and may have been poor in
pocket, but he earl rich le charac-
ter. The path he traveled to and
from the old homestead was always
a. "straight path." Though the
"last will and testament" which he
signed made provision for a few
trent:els, a Bible and a gold headed
Cane, and perhaps a snuffbox, that
father left you the grandest legacy a
boy ever received. Be left to you
an untarnished name, -the example of
a father's life well and honestly li.1'
ed.
"BLAZING", MAEIK$.
Then, again, I further study the
"blazing" marks along the pathe
which led up to the home of our
childhood, 1 .find out Veit those
paths were Christian path; and an
ways led toward the throne 01 God.
IIow do I know? Well, u,..y friend,
in going along the pathway which
was "blazed" by your mother's
bread knife and knitting needle, I
comp upon altars everywhere. I
find that there was hardly a step
that she took in life but she had a
Place where she could stop and kneel
in r rayer. And at every' altar I
find indentations in the rocks where
shet. laid l�ci' burdens at the Saviour's
fee
And, oh, my friend, what a lot, of
burdens she had to lay upon her
"Saviour's breast in her journey of
life! There was that awful burden
of physical sickness. I do not know
now you may remember your mother,
but inost of us think of another
when she was physically sick, She
seemed to be so long dying. Now
it was, the pain in the heady now it
was the disordered nerves, Then it
was that long, long' time, 'cahen we
had a trained nurse. "How is mo-
ther to -day?" the younger children
would ask, and she would answer,
"Not very well, my dear; not very
well." I think one of the saddest
and yet the most beautiful prayers
my mother used to make, in` the cast
year and a half of her earthly ex-
istence, was this, "Oh, God, may my
children never have to physically
stiffer as I have suffered." Yet, for
the most part, our mothers lost
their physical health by living and
doing for us.
A GLORIFIED ROADWAY.
I go a little farther along this
Christian path of your dead mother.
I find also the place where she laid
at Christ's feet the burden of her
anxiety for the salvation of her
children. 'Sone people dove to
think of their mother, first by pic-
turing her sitting and sewing for
their advent. It is a beautiful
sight to see the young wife, by the
evening lamp with her needle in her
hand, making the little white gar -
1 :eats for the. stranger soon to come.
Our mothers thought and planned
for the cradle and the little ward-
robe weeks before we were born.
They did it so that when they
should lie down upon a bed of suf-
fering all might be well for the little
one's welcome. That is "a beautiful
vision. But, oh, to me it is a far
more beautiful sight to see a young
wife upon her knees in prayer. To
think of her praying to God that
her unborn child might grow up to
be a good man, a good woman. And
you, my friend, sitting before me,
from that moment when your moth-
er first prayed for you until her
death she never left that altar be-
fore which she was continually be-
seeching God for the salvation of
your soul. Along that Christian
pathway she first led your tottering
feet. In that Christian pathway she
first taught you to utter the baby
prayer, "Now I lay inc down to
sleep." In that Christian path she
gave you her dying benediction. Will
you not seek the old path, the
Christian path of your glorified and
sainted mother ? It is a path cov-
ered with wild flowers and fragrant
with perfume. Those flowers and
that pathway have been
watered with your mother's tears.
WALKING WITH CHRIST,
If the path which you first travel-
ed to Sunday school was along the
sidewalk of a city, then . in all pro-
bability' you walked. You walked
byte side. of your father or moth-
er, because you were the youngest.
Then your new shoes would. squeak
at every step. Those shoes kept for
a long while, because you were only
allowed to wear them on Sunday.
But as you rode or walked to that
Sunday school and to your first
church services a great change came
over your family party. One of your
sisters or brothers left your side and
went to the church altar. One by
one they thane gave their hearts to
Christ and publicly confessed him at
the Communion table. After awhile
your turn came. You can• see your-
self now as you carne before the
church session. You remember how
the old minister wiped his glasses.
He put his hand upon your shoulder
and said : "My boy, why no you
want to join the church ? Do you
love Jesus ? WMMI you promise to
live for him and give your life to
his service ?" Then you remember
the great big lump that stuck in
your throat. You remember how
between your sobs you said : "The
reason I want to be a Christian is
because my father and another and
brothers and sisters are all Chris-
tians: 1 want their Saviour to be
mine. As we have a united family
here I want an unbroken family cir-
cle in heaven." Aged, gray haired
man, that was a beautiful path
over which you went to church for
the first time. That was a holy
drive you took on the morning you
went to take your first communion.
You did not speak much that morn-
ing-, but your thoughts were very
deep and very high. They' were as
'deep as your sins, as high as and as
great as the forgiveness of God, Oh,
why have you, not always kept walk-
ing in that path ? Christ walked
with you therm twenty years ago.
Jeanie as guide is ready to lead you
bark to that path and walk with
you there now. Will you seek the
old path—the path over which you
went for the first time to the com-
munion table of the Lord ?
HIGHWAY Oh' IltOSSt)M i.
''here is still another path Whid
you Once trod. ` This path Set frag-
rant with blossoms. Like the fabled
trete of old the heavy branches whi.a
line it are laden with silver bells. It
is the path which once led up • to
your marriage alter.. It is the path
over whloh the fallen rice is strewn.
and Whore the 'Merry laughter of the
bridesmaids is trying to dxown the
jot fu1 salutations of the wedding
chime. The blossoms which line
this pathway are orange blossoms.
The silver bells are those which once
played Menciclssohn's "Wedding
March." Wheredid that path which
ended at the marriage altar first
lead you ? "Oh," you answer, "it
led me first among tile briers and
aver the stony grounds: My court-
ship days Were not all sunshine. For
a long time I did not know whether
:I could }van the hand of any heart-
love.
eartlove. In the first place, I was not
socially her equal. Then , I was
penniless and had nothing to. offer
any two hands and a willing heart.
Then, my life was not What it ought
to have been, But she had faith
in me. I promised her to reform.
I went to church with her, 1 gave
rte drd.nking, and. I promised •her I
would surrender my heart to Christ,
And,' do, you -know, the night she
gave herself to rise she made me.
kneel with her and we both made a
prayer that God would hear and
help me keep my vo'vs." Ah, yes,
my brother, I know just how you
think of that old path which led up
to your marriage • altar i When you
took the trembling hand of that
young girl in yours you truly felt
that you wanted to be good. You
promised God, then and there, for
her sake as well as your own, to
hive a good, true, pure, noble, Chris-
tian life. clave you kept your vow?
Are you willing to go to church with
her now as you did when you were
engaged to her ? Are you helping
her to setK the right example before
your children—your children and
hers? Remember, pian, you. made
a promise to her and to God on the
night of your wedding. • Will you
seek the old path of consecrated
love, 'which wound through the days
of your courtship and ended on the
night you took your heart love as
a bride from her father's home ?
THE WAY TO HAPPINESS.
But how are you going to find
your way back to these old paths ?
Some of you have been away from
these paths for many years. You
aro lost, completely lost. You nev-
er frrnd your way out from the moun-
tains of sin unless you have a divine
guide. The importance of a guide
to one lost in the mountains of
earth or of sin can never be overes-
timated. I remember, some years
ago, when bicycling through the
mountains of West Virginia, we were
completely lost. We wandered
around and around until the sun
sank and the twilight covered up her
somber face with a black robe and
hid herself in total darkness. We
groped our way along, shuddering at
the fiendish yell of a screech owl and
the glittering eyes that might be
those of a prowling panther. After
;awhile we saw a dint light in the
distance. We struggled on until we
could knock at that house and be
taken in. Then in the morning we
1 were safe because our host, as a
guide, directed us on. To -clay, ye
lost and wearied sinners, Christ is
ready to be your guide. He will
lead you out of the mountains of
sin. He will lead you. to the old
paths which are all converging into
the one Christian path that leads
to the foot of the heavenly throne.
Will you let him lead you ? Will you
let him pardon you ? Will you let
Jesus save you ?
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So Sas LESSON.
INTERNATIONAL LESSON',
OCT. 18.
Text of the -Lesson, Ps. li., 1-17.
Golden Text, Ps.
li., 10. '
This also is written by the Holy
Spirit, as David said in some of his
last words as the sweet psalmist of
Israel, "The Spirit of the Lord
spake by me, and His word was in
my tongue" (II. Sara. xxiii., 1, 2).
See also Acts i., 16; iv., 25. If we
would honor God and be blessed by
Hini we must not only believe that
all Scripture was written by the
Holy Spirit, but that it was all
written for our profit (II. Tim. iii.,
16, 17; Rom. xv., 4). The occasion
of this psalm is given to us in what
we might call in our B3ibles the pre-
face to the psalm; but which in the
Hebrew psalter is part of the psalm
itself and numbered as verses 1 and
2, making the whole psalm consist of
twenty-one instead of nineteen vers-
es. The same David whom God ap-
pointed a king and a prophet prov-
ed himself to bo a very great sin-
ner. IIe did not in this surprise
God, for God knew him thoroughly
before He called hire; but inasmuch
as the only human material God
can get to work with is sinful, He
takes what IIe pleases and magnifies
His grace in such as we are, showing
forth in greater or less degree our
under sunfulness and Ills amazing
grace and love. The Holy Spirit
shows forth all that is in than with-
out respect of persons. Nothing is
covered or made light of; but man,
being fully exposed, is shown how
he may be cleansed from all his sin
by Gcd's own provision.
God is all mercy and loving kind-
nors and long suffering, but He is
just and cannot tolerate sift, evert
though He bear long with the sin-
ner (Ex, xxxiv., 6, 7), He has pro-
vided, at infinite cost, eternal re-
demption, including the forgiveness
of all sins, for every truly penitent
sinner, but there must be on the
part of the sinner honest confession
and forseking of all sin. We are all
by nature sinners. This is sot forth
generally in verse 5, with which com-
pare Eph. 11,, 8; 310133. ill., 28.
David's confession of sin is sae11 .113
verses 8 and 4, and his cry for
cleansing and restoration in the
greater part of 1Iie rest of the psalm,
The inaj,'trity of people do not ;teem
to think that they treed forgiveness.
They ,have no conviction of sin, 310
sense of guilt before God, no con-
scious need of a Saviour.
A deep conviction, of sin is a great
blessing, for only thus can We ap-
preciate our Saviour and, His groat
salvation. in verse '7 ;David doubt-
less has reference to the ceremonial
cleansing of the leper (Lev, xiv.,
4-9), the hyssop beim; used to
sprinkle the blood. "Whiter than
snow" tastes; us to Ise.. i., 18. and
makes us think also of our Lord's
"clean every whit" (John edit,' 1.0)'..
That which David 'asked' for that all
might be blotted out, verses 1, and
9, wo aro assured of in Isa. xliii,,
2 xliv., 22; I. John' 1-9. What a
wonderful redemption it is that blots
out all sin and makes the sinner to
appear before God as if he bad never
sinned, and the helpless shiner's only
Part is to receive what God has
provided. As one has said in
John iii., . 16, God does all the
loving and all the giving, and roan
does the .receiving, When a eland of
God commits sin 11e does not cease
to be a child of God qtly more than
when a child, in a family, being dis-
obedient, , ceases to be a child 1t1
that family, but the joy and fellow-
ship are broken, and the percales are
grieved. , Da-vid does not pray that
salvation may be restored to hire,
but the joy of salvation (8, 12),
That God has rebellions children is
seers in Isa. i, 2, and the reason of
it is hi the carnal mind, which is
enmity against Gail, is not subject
and never can be (130131. viii • 7),
therefore the need of a clean heart
and a right spirit, which only God
can put in us and which lle hes
promised. See Tileek, xxxvi, 2128,
and remember that what God will
in due time do for all Israel He will
surely do for Isis ohm. now. There
are, alas, so few who seem to want
a clean heart now. The aim of
many seems to be to get all the
selfish enjoyment they can now, hop-
ing that somehow by the mercy of
God they may Peach heaven at last.
Contrast David's desire in seeking
again the joy of God's salvation
that his tongue might sing aloud of
God's ri ghtousness, that his mouth
Wright show forth God's praise, that
transgressors night know the ways
of God and sinners be converted un-
to Him (18-15).
Therm are • many who still think,
as did the hypocrites in Israel, that
God's favor can be won by our gifts
or so called sacrifices, not under-
standing that God has provided the
only and all sufficient sacrifice and
is ready to give the full benefit to
every truly broken anal contrite
heart (16, 17). There is no Sav-
iour for the proud and self righteous,
but for those who know themselves
to be lost and ]tentless sinners there
as a Saviour and a full redemption.
Prom, the first sacrifice of Gen. ill,
21, on to Calvary, We may truly say,
1 "hereby perceive we the love of
IGocl." The sacrifices all point to
Him who bore our sins in iris own.
body and thus provided redemption
for every sinner, for all Israel and
for all nations (18, 19). Our sacri-
fices are only the love of Christ con -
'straining us to show our gratitude
'to Him who has redeemed us. May
our souls cry, "0 Lord, open Thou
my lips, and my mouth sha'l show
forth Thy praise." (15). And may
we not forget that the God of Truth
who has sent the Spirit of Truth to
reveal Elim who is the Truth de-
sires Truth in our inward parts (6).
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ONE'S VOCABULARY.
How Many Words Do You 'Use in
Conversation ?
In boasting of a foreigner's lin-
guistic accomplishments, it is often
heard said : "Ile speaks English as
perfectly as you and I." But how
perfectly do you and I" know our
mother. tongue ?
In point of vocabulary, it is esti-
mated that Shakespeare stands eas-
ily at the head, with a use of some-
thing like 15.000 different words.
Milton collies next with 8,000 or 9,-
000 words. Carlyle is supposed to
have used as many. The Indiana-
polig Journal quotes certain esti-
mates
stimates of the vocabulary used by the
educated and . uneducated as varying
all the way from 5,000 down to 300
or 400 words, and then revises these
figures from an examination of the.
unabridged dictionary, reaching these
conclusions : "Every well-read per-
son of fair ability and education win
be able to define oi.• to understand
as used, nearly or quite, perhaps
more than 50,000 words, And the
same per°nn in conversation and
writing will command not fewer than
15,000 to 20,000, and can add, 5,-
000 to 10,000 to these numbers if
he be literarily inclined. The plain
people use or read un.derstandiugly
from 8,000 to 10,000 words, accord-
ing to their general intelligence and
conversational power, while a per-
son who cannot read, but who has a
good degree of native mental ability,
will command about 5,000."
In making estimates of this hints
we steed to be careful in defining
clearly just what we mean, so far as
mastery of the language is concern-
ed. A man might aiderstand in a
vague way three times as many
words as he could intelligently use
or call to mind. That is, the read-
ing or hearing vocabulary is much
larger than the writing or speaking
vocabulary,
13ut''-does a man always really un-
derstand the words he claims to ?
Even if we admit that he knows
words which he cannot clearly de-
fine, such en stick, lump, anger, etc.,
yet if we are to determine bis mas-
tery of the mother tongue we should
submit Ilial to the test of a correct
and descriminating use in either
speaking or writing. "You and I"
subjected to such a severe test as
this might be h'wni'lated to find that
if we wish to compliment our foreign
friend's facility in English we would
better refer . it to some better stan-
dards of 'perfection." than our own
linguistic aeeornplislrntents. •
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TREATING BAD FLOORS.
One problem that confronts many
, a woman is what to do with her
i floors. The house may be well
built but dating before hand wood
floors were so popular or so general.
Straw matting wears out quickly
and the floors are made of irregular
boards with great cracks yawning
here and there. It seems useless to
thiale of making such a floor suitable
for rugs but it may be done. In the
beginning it is well to inoke up one's
mind to be thorough, else it is bet-
ter to give up the job at the outset,
Tieing willing to take time first
plane'lown the boards that stick ftp
above the others, then fill the crack.
111 there are but few they may be
filled with putty but if great opcn-
c ings show between the separate
!boards or along next to the well it
tis good platy to retake some news -
;paper paste. Tear up old papers
and put into water let it ware to a
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boil and stir until it becomes a
pasty mass, then add some coarse
glue dissolved or take small quanti-
ties at a time and add some plaster
of Paris. ;Work rapidly using a
knife or an old epoon which -ever
seems most handy. Fleeter of
Paris alone snakes a good filler. Mix
a small cupful at a time with water
until a stiff cream is formed then
use it quickly before it hardens. If
;there are stains an the floor that
; washing will not remove use sand-
paper* or even a piece of glass to
;remove the stained fibres. Steel shav-
;ings are even better than either 01
these for taking oft stains and can
be bought at large paint stores.
Now how shall site color the floor?
Some of the stains bought ready
mixed in cans are excellent. The
oil oak stain is especially to be re-
commended. Shake the can long
and well before opening, then stir
until there is no sediment hi the
bottom of the can else you will have,
clear oil for part maid a coloring
matter like thick mud for the rest
of the floor, You cannot hurry this
part of the work. Apply the stain
in a thin coating and rub with a
piece of flannel; you will think that
you are rubbing off all the color but
keep at it feu the more you rub the
stain into the wood the more last-
ing and satisfactory the job will be.
The oil -stained, in fact any stain-
ed floor, should not be washed up
u-ith soap suds but should be freed
from 'hast and wiped with a damp
cloth. The common floor stains
should be applied in thin coats and
then if used for a border only they
wi.1 be iinproved by a thin coat of
varnish. Then tJtiri the varnish
with turpentine to make it sptioad
as thinly as possible.
The higher 'the character of rant.,
the less the pretence, because there is
less to pretend to.•--i3olwer,
THE SAVORY APPLE.
Apple Pat-time—Line round patty
pans with paste and in each place
half of a pared and cored apple with
the hollow side 'down, Adel a tea-
spoon of butter and a pinch of nut-
meg or a little: grated yellow rind of
lemon, Bake until the apple is soft.
Apple Pandowdy.—Line the bot-
tom and sides of a baking dish with
thin slices of bread that have been
buttered, 1111 the dish with thin
slices of apple and then grate a
little nutmeg over the top, or use
any other seasoning preferd•eil. Put
on the top more or less of sugar de-
pending on the quality of the fruit,
adcl a little hot water, and 00170I'
with another layer of bread. Put e.
plate ever 'the dish mid bake the
pandowdy slowly for one hoer sties a
ha:f. Serve hot with cream or a
liquid sauna
Apple Cakein a Loaf.—Sift two
cups of flour, three level tcaapoone
of baking powder and a pinch of salt
together. Add two tablespoons of
melted butter and one beaten egg,
with a cup of milk, adding the last
of it carefully, as the dough must
be tts soft as can he, and roll out.
Lay the sheet of dough its the but-
tered pan 033,d cover the top with
mildly acid apples _paced Gnat cut iv
eighths. Stiok the sharp edges of
the apple into the dough, the;
sprinkle over the top a level table-
spoon of of cinnamon and two round
ing tablespoons of sugar that have
been mixed together. Serve with
butter as a cake or with lemon sauce
as a puddin
Hot Appleg. Cake.—Sift two cups of
pastry flour with four level tea-
spoons of baiting powder and rub in
one-quarter cup of butter. Mix with'
one and one-half cups of milk, But-
ter a padding dish and cover with
the batter., then cover this with slic-
ed apples; make another layer of
batter and apples and a top layer of
batter. Bake until the apples. are
cooked,, which will take about an
hour. Servo with a sauce made
from: two cups of boiling water, one
cup of sugar, two slightly rounding
tablespoons of butter. When cook-
ed smooth and dear, which shotadd
take five minutes. add a teaspoon in
lemon flavoring.
HINTS TO HOUSE nInEPERS.
it is easy enough to mace one's
own lemon extract and have it both
Icheap and pure. Grate the yellow
t part of the rind of the lemons, put
it into a wide-mouthed bottle, and
cover with good alcohol. Let stand
three wcekk, then draw the alcohol
off, anis pour it over freshly grated
peel. Let stand three weeks aped it
will be realty for use.
For those unpleasant afflictions
known as styes use witch hazel
(hamainelis) as soon as symptoms
appear. If too strong for the eves
weaken with a little water, Weak
eyes al'e strengthened by the applica-
tion and if begun in time, witch
bezel will be found a sure preven-
tive.
A porcelain sauce pan that has be-
come stained should bo half filled
with water into which a tablespoon-
ful of powdered borax has been put.
Let the water boil briskly for atv)rile
Should all the stain not come off,.
wet a cloth and dip in borax and
scour the spots.
An exchange says the secret of
making good baking -powder biscuit
is to have the oven hot and the
dough very cold. A lump of ice
dropped into the milk just in time
to dissolve before it is wanted is a
good way of cooling it.
Far a good home-made stove polish
shave fine one-half bar of good soap,
add one and a half pints of rain
water, put over the fire and heat
until melted. Then add 10 cents'
worth of plumbago. Stir until this
is dissolved, and just before tacking
from the fire add one tablespoonful
of turpentine. The rnixturo should
resemble soft soap, and when cold
will he a paste polish. Dip flannel
cloth in water and rub on when
stove is colli; polish with old papers.
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"Indeed ?" "Yes; his wife spends •
all her time waiting on him and call-
ing 11int pet names."
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